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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Closure on Closures broquaint 205
2 Just another Bach Hacker benn 183
3 fishing japh Len 180
4 On being a developer amongst non-developers wil 177
5 How Perl Saved BayCon TV stephen 168
6 "Chuck Norris"-ing code brian_d_foy 163
7 (tye)Re: A question of style tye 155
8 Perl oddities brian_d_foy 153
9 Predict Random Numbers no_slogan 148
10 Re: Second rate programmers and my confession George_Sherston 143
11 Help in Tough Times ELISHEVA 142
12 Perl and Address labels, oh yeah! brian_d_foy 140
13 Paul Graham on Great Hackers biosysadmin 138
14 The Personalities of Perl Monks - Part I EdwardG 138
15 Blessables -- What Can You Make Into Objects? chromatic 135
16 Short Refactoring Tip: let the object do it for you Ovid 133
17 A most obscure bug robin 131
18 Perl and Prolog and Continuations... oh my! adrianh 129
19 Stubborn as a Saint Ovid 127
20 How to do session times The Right Way strider corinth 125
21 I go there for the code :-) zentara 123
22 How much of Perl can be removed? hacker 122
23 Re: C vs perl Ovid 122
24 Advancing oneself personally and professionally as a programmer (discussion) deprecated 122
25 Parsing your script's command line grinder 120
26 Performance Trap - Opening/Closing Files Inside a Loop Limbic~Region 117
27 A Lazy Class Zaxo 117
28 Why use strict is good, and barewords are bad merlyn 116
29 RFC: Almost a Book billh 114
30 No, "We" Don't Have to Do Anything chromatic 114
31 Run your own perlmonks! theorbtwo 114
32 Am I a power-mad Friar? RMGir 114
33 Re: Get Out of a Dull Meeting Ovid 113
34 (OT) Blast from the Past: The Pink Camel Ovid 111
35 Considering hash slices, past, present and future grinder 111
36 Objectivity and Commercialism talexb 110
37 Performance, Abstraction and HOP pg 109
38 Node 541 Corion 109
39 Perl ORM comparison (Class::DBI vs. DBIx::Class vs. Rose::DB::Object) aulusoy 107
40 what is EOF and how can I send it? revdiablo 107
41 Re: How bad it is to learn Perl? hossman 106
42 Re: Universal laws of bugs? dws 105
43 Renovating Best Nodes demerphq 104
44 Re: How do you avoid "Code Burnout"? dragonchild 102
45 Re: Re: Possible first post syndrome remedy ignatz 102
46 Conditional idiom : "if X equals Y or Z" ?? George_Sherston 102
47 (Almost) Purely Functional JAPH Schemer 101
48 Editor / IDE Consolidation trs80 101
49 Modules that significantly contribute to Laziness Whitehawke 100
50 GUI japh Daruma 100
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